As always, let’s talk about versioning conventions - you may be thinking “Shouldn’t this be 18.0, as AOSP is on 11, and not 11.1?”. As we stated in our last blog post, after 17.0, whenever we conduct a platform wide rebase, we will be incrementing our minor version. So, when we rebased on the December Android Security Bulletin (ASB) due to its fairly massive changes, LineageOS 18.1 was born.

For a modern smartphone to be sustainable, at the very minimum it has to get security updates and it needs to be possible to change the inevitably failing battery. This site is designed to help with finding those phones: Phones that are supported by an alternative Android distribution are listed together with guides for changing the battery.

This application is compiled with the operating system and does not require a rooted device for use. It uses the same internal APIs as adb backup which is deprecated and thus needs a replacement.

This article describes how you can migrate your apps and data from your old to your new smartphone (LineageOS 17.1) using adb pull/push.

Uses UnifiedNlp 2.0-alpha3, Adds support for Exposure Notifications API, This allows using COVID-19 tracing apps, Bug fixes in Maps, Location, Cloud Messaging and others.

EDIT: tl;dr: We are working an an open implementation of the Google/Apple protocol (I call it PPCP, which may be wrong). You can find and contribute to our repository here: https://github.com/theSc...

NanoDroid is a installer for various OpenSource related things, most noticably microG and F-Droid. It supports direct /system installation, both devices with or without A/B partition scheme, aswell as Magisk Mode (module) installation. It also includes several tools (eg. GNU Bash, tools from util-linux/bsdmainutils and more), scripts and additional features (system debloating, init scripts, automatic logcat creation), aswell as a companion F-Droid Repository.